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195. Jamy Ian Swiss — The Conjuror’s Conundrum

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is Copperfield Making the Statue of Liberty Disappear?

There seems to be a differece between mentalism and magic as well. One reason is that we just have better intuition about physics than we do about pari psychology, you know. We get this idea about physical conjuring. But as soon as you're getting into somebody's head, it's disturbing and provocative. And the methods are not ot e. Methods are not obvious. There may be partly a physical method, but partly just a psychological method.

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